Hi everyone! Welcome to my guest blog. Today's post may be shorter than most. Though maybe not shorter than Don Most. recently I came to the grave realization that perhaps my plays are too realistic - well, some of them. I thought about the plays that have had real (not Fringe or Utah) success.
First off, I received an email from a publisher asking specifically for non-realistic plays. He also complained that he received too many realistic ones.
Back to success or not - these are the plays that have done well...
- Brine Shrimp Gangsters. Level of realism: just below Gomer Pyle.
- Virginia Beach Incest Time Machine. Level of realism: Back to the Future meets Deliverance.
- Trump vs. Kahlo. Level of realism: Expressionism vs. Tweeterism.
Now compare this to masterpieces like "You Can Cry When You're Dead" By the way, I lost a friend yesterday because of that play. her review turned into an argument (yes, I know it takes two to argue, so I stopped...she didn't). Sigh.
On one level, the reality of a poor Korean woman having potential fathers of her child from three countries was probably nil. Yet it gets rejected all the time. Meanwhile, brine shrimp with squirt guns gets published.
Even the poster art was realistic.
So this suggests that perhaps I should go in the "un-real" direction. Well, I already have. I wrote something called Death of a Chocolate Bar on Good Friday. Guess what it's about?
Can chocolate bars get depressed? Of course they can. Can their have horrid, torrid affairs with clingy ice cubes.
Did you know "ice cube" in Indonesian is "ice stone"?
Above: "Ice Stone."
So, without further ado, here is a tragedy about a chocolate bar and ice cube melting....
No actual ice cubes or chocolate bars were melted in the writing of this play.
BRYAN STUBBLES is a playwright and sometime screenwriter as well as Crazytown's most eligible bachelor. His ten minute masterpiece Trump vs Kahlo is available here. His one-act play The Wicked Life of Patience Boston had a reading in West Virginia in December 2015 as well. The Noose had a performance at the Great Salt Lake Fringe last summer.
10 minute plays Hera and Juno Go Shooting and Rudi and Azalea Go Fishing were performed at Grass Valley, California's Nugget Fringe Theatre Festival in January.
Brine Shrimp Gangsters will be published this year by Smith & Kraus.
Please watch a short film he cowrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3irqcOG3Og
BRYAN STUBBLES www.newplayexchange.org/users/3855/bryan-stubbles
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